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By: The Origin of Big | The Loom | lloyd shepherd dot com

The Origin of Big | The Loom | lloyd shepherd dot com — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:54:31 +0000

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By: Before Leviathan | The Loom | moregoodstuff.info

Before Leviathan | The Loom | moregoodstuff.info — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:46:28 +0000

[...] to snarf colossal amounts of food. To do so, they swing open their toothless lower jaws, which inflate like a parachute with water. Then they haul their lower jaw shut again and then use a titanic tongue to push out a [...]

By: Recent Reading – 10/12/10 | Everyday Biology

Recent Reading – 10/12/10 | Everyday Biology — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:35:10 +0000

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By: Improbable Research » Blog Archive » The tale of the whale and the parachute

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:07:23 +0000

[...] writes Carl Zimmer in The [...]

By: Leviathan, the ancient marine predator discovered | A Schooner of Science

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:52:37 +0000

[...] big! The largest animal that has ever lived is the blue whale that is still in the ocean now. There are theories that the blue whale is as big as things will ever [...]

By: whaler

whaler — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:30:35 +0000

While lunge feeders are large, and the blue whale is a lunge feeder, let’s not forget that the sperm whale is not a lunge feeder, and is larger than most lunge feeders. A blue whale weighs up to 200 tons, but the fin whale is the second largest whale, and only weighs up to 65 tons. A sperm whale is similar in length and weight to a fin whale, an larger than most other lunge feeders. Lunge feeding does not seem like the only path. It has advantages, I am sure. By eating plankton, they have less concern about finding prey or prey escaping, for example. But big can come from other directions.

By: Giants Lurking In The Drawer | The Loom | Discover Magazine

Giants Lurking In The Drawer | The Loom | Discover Magazine — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:52:15 +0000

[...] Today, a number of big filter feeders swim in the oceans. Among sharks and their relatives, filter feeding has evolved a few times, in forms such as manta rays and whale sharks. Baleen whales evolved filter feeding as well, and have evolved into the biggest animals ever–perhaps the biggest animals possible. [...]

By: Announcing the posts that will be published in The Open Laboratory 2009! [A Blog Around The Clock] « The Swarm

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:44:15 +0000

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By: Open Lab selections 2009 « Seeds Aside

Open Lab selections 2009 « Seeds Aside — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:49:25 +0000

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By: fizzix » Lowest Energy State?

fizzix » Lowest Energy State? — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:35:16 +0000

[...] feeding that really captures the importance of scaling in biology, or more accurately zoology. This blog post on fin whale feeding mechanics seems to me to be a fresh and physical approach to an [...]